Lee Konitz Quartet

With Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and now Dave Brubeck gone, the last cool jazzer standing is 85-year-old alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, who has always embraced the progressive, whether it’s bebop, third wave or the occasional nudge into free territory. His sound is so elemental to the way we understand jazz that we don’t have to listen to him to hear it. His current quartet features Florian Weber on piano, Jeff Denson on bass and Ziv Ravitz on drums. Here’s hoping he pisses off the mouldy figs who are bound to show up hoping for “Too”.